Federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into further darkness.

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the ...

The gang’s presence is being felt all over the forest — in gang ... wreckage of illegal gold mining. The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation, far less than ...

This is not the gold trade of mining companies listed on the ... It's not for everyone but visiting this part of the Amazon is special. These experiences, as well as the ecological functioning of the ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

Once estimated as 20,000 in the territory, hundreds of illegal miners still remain and may expand business at the slightest ...

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled ... Peru – Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a half-dozen Peruvian military vehicles are rumbling along a dirt path that cuts through dense ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest ... Employees and mining experts say the Chinese companies use mercury in their operations, used to separate gold from ore. Mercury is considered ...